The Emerging Threat of Extractives Sector to Intact Forest Landscapes

The Emerging Threat of Extractives Sector to Intact Forest Landscapes

As demand for commodities increases globally, resource-rich countries are focal areas for industrial expansion. The extractives sector is driving unprecedented growth of infrastructure (e.g., roads, railways and pipelines) into sparsely populated regions, which contain some of the world’s remaining...

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Main Authors: Hedley S. Grantham, Paolo Tibaldeschi, Pablo Izquierdo, Karen Mo, David J. Patterson, Hugo Rainey, J. E. M. Watson, Kendall R. Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Subjects:
intact forest landscape
mining
emerging threat
oil and gas
spatial analysis
mining commodity
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2021.692338/full

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